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Quality Assurance Tester (Contractor)
Ubisoft
London, , United Kingdom
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Company Description
Future Games of London is an independent studio that designs, develops and publishes Smartphone and Tablet games.
Founded in September 2009, FGOL create wholly owned and original IP which by March 2016 had achieved over 280 million downloads worldwide following the success of the Hungry Shark series.
Our studio is looking for a passionate and talented Quality Assurance Games Tester (QA) tester to work with the development and QA team in producing high quality applications for the smartphone / tablet market.
You will be responsible for assisting the QA Lead & QA Manager in testing the product before release to market and subsequent updates so that the application is close to a defect free state as possible.
Job Description
The ideal candidate:
Our studio is looking for a passionate and talented Quality Assurance (QA) tester to work with the development team in producing applications which are extremely fun to play and of a very high quality.
You will be responsible for assisting the QA Lead & QA Manager in testing the product before release to market and subsequent updates so that the application is close to a defect free state as possible. The position is available asap for a period of 3 months.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Work effectively in completing assigned QA tasks; test plan completion, provide feedback on features, investigative tasks, live-ops checks, ad hoc testing on new features in trying to break them!
• Ensure that all bugs are recorded in an efficient, complete and informative manner, either on the Scrum board or bug database
• Respond to development team’s request in line with the project e.g. providing more information for bugs, balancing, build installation, validating bugs
• Look after and keep track of company devices, data cables, equipment etc...
• Respond to support tickets internally in reproducing them and updating them with information for the dev team to fix.
SKILLS:
• Passionate for the industry and finding every single bug!
• Strongly motivated to work within a small structured team
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Comprehensive understanding of how defects are reported for the dev team to fix
• Organised, disciplined and methodical approach to testing
• Computer literate in word processing, record keeping, database handling
• Excellent English & communications skill
• Strong team spirit, pro-active with tasks
• Basic knowledge of Unity (not essential)
Qualifications
EXPERIENCE:
• At least 6 months experience as a Quality Assurance position
• Experienced of working on multi-platforms e.g. Android, iOS, Amazon, Windows Phone
• Extensive knowledge of bug databases and the workflow of a bug
• Written QA reports in a professional manor for QA Leads or senior management e.g. after test plan completion
• Used Excel & Google docs to write up test criteria to form test plans
• Awareness of the development cycle and key milestones
• Experienced of using SCRUM/Agile (not essential)
Additional Information
This is a contractor position which is available ASAP.
BENEFITS:
FGOL offers its employees some great benefits which include flexible office hours, 25 days of annual leave, a pension plan, private healthcare, not to mention weekly football, birthday cakes, monthly breakfasts and a friendly and creative working environment.